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Strong's #3934 - לָעֵג
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
1) mocking
1a) mocker (noun cstr)
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2313) col (לאהג LAhG) AC: Mock CO: ? AB: ?: A mocking by stammering or imitation of a foreign tongue. [from: ol- as coming from the throat]
V) col (לאהג LAhG) - Mock: KJV (18): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil) mock, scorn, laugh, deride, stammer - Strongs: H3932 (לָעַג)
Nm) col (לאהג LAhG) - Mocking: KJV (9): scorn, derision, mocker, stammer - Strongs: H3933 (לַעַג), H3934 (לָעֵג)
em) coil (ליאהג LYAhG) - Mocker: KJV (1): stammerer - Strongs: H5926 (עִלֵּג)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
לָעֵג adj.
(1) speaking in a barbarous or foreign tongue. Isaiah 28:11, לַעֲנֵי שָׂפָה “the people of a strange language” (i.e. the Assyrians[?]).
(2) jester, buffoon, mocker. Psalms 35:16, לַעֲגֵי מָעוֹג prop. “mockers for a cake,” i.e. parasites, who act the part of buffoons at the feasts of the wealthy for the sake of dainty fare; Gr. ψωμοκόλακες, κνισσοκόλακες. In the Talmud. לְשׁוֹן עוּגָה talking for a cake, is used for jocose scurrilous discourse.
